SAH Commons | John Levin | Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/johnlevin/activity/ Activity feed for John Levin. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:10:43 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 313c23fabdeb00a333701e75ed85fbfa John Levin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1756224/ Thu, 21 Oct 2021 10:08:23 -0400 0 7aa45026db5d31d440a5ce30ff804cbe John Levin replied to the topic Emmy Hennings in Spanish in the discussion dada https://hcommons.org/groups/dada/forum/topic/emmy-hennings-in-spanish/#post-29125 Wed, 26 Feb 2020 10:52:04 -0500 And more Hennings en español: ‘La última alegría’, containing the volume of poetry of that title “Die Letzte Freude” (The Last Joy), short pieces by and about her, and some correspondence. Available in print and in a cheap ebook edition:

https://publicaciones.uclm.es/la-ultima-alegria/

Also, the comic has been translated into German, with the ti…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f7bbb85f26ce94d4a4e95782bb9a49f John Levin started the topic Dada on Twitter in the discussion dada https://hcommons.org/groups/dada/forum/topic/dada-on-twitter/ Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:43:20 -0500 Just to let you know, in advance of some gexciting news, I’ve set up a Twitter account for all things dadaist:

https://twitter.com/dadaglobe

 

]]> 0 01cae6e9541a9a88e0f00da1fe455ab9 John Levin started the topic English translations of Walter Serner in the discussion dada https://hcommons.org/groups/dada/forum/topic/english-translations-of-walter-serner/ Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:06:16 -0500 An english translation of Walter Serner’s first collection of short stories has just been published by Wakefield Press (Cambridge, Mass.)

http://wakefieldpress.com/serner_monkey.html

And Twisted Spoon Press (Prague) are due to publish his infamous ‘Last Loosening’ in July:

http://www.twistedspoon.com/last-loosening.html

]]> 0 5b89f7cae3687c8f59aa8ed317bbe581 John Levin started the topic London: Barbican: Into The Night in the discussion dada https://hcommons.org/groups/dada/forum/topic/london-barbican-into-the-night/ Sat, 14 Dec 2019 15:31:31 -0500 The Barbican in London (in collaboration with the Belvedere of Vienna, a very fine museum) is presenting “Into The Night”, an exhibition on nightclubs and cabaret related to modern art. I’ve not seen it yet, but the Cabaret Voltaire does feature, as does the work of Sophie Taeuber and Hans Arp in the recreation of L’Aubette.

More details…[Read more]

]]> 0 1b20a49853b1305bb93046aa01e57262 John Levin started the topic London: John Heartfield Exhibition in the discussion dada https://hcommons.org/groups/dada/forum/topic/london-john-heartfield-exhibition/ Wed, 20 Nov 2019 11:17:00 -0500 There is an exhibition of some of John Heartfields’s works on in London at the Four Corners gallery until February 1st 2020.

HEARTFIELD: ONE MAN’S WAR

“Revisiting the father of photomontage, John Heartfield. Armed with scissors, paste and acerbic wit, Heartfield used art as a political weapon. Risking his life under Hitler’s Third Reich, he s…[Read more]

]]> 0 dc61faff8bc4772e9f685e74f762e988 John Levin started the topic CFP: New York Dada (Loughborough, UK, 14-15 May 2020) in the discussion dada https://hcommons.org/groups/dada/forum/topic/cfp-new-york-dada-loughborough-uk-14-15-may-2020/ Wed, 20 Nov 2019 10:41:54 -0500 CFP: New York Dada (Loughborough, 14-15 May 20)

Loughborough University, May 14 – 15, 2020

Deadline: Dec 9, 2019

Rethinking the Histories and Legacies of New York Dada

Over the course of the 1920s, Dada became one of the driving forces of avant-garde art production in New York. This cosmopolitan, transatlantic art movement stimulated i…[Read more]

]]> 0 0fa4898b560c9377d823f9089acca645 John Levin replied to the topic Dada-companion gone in the discussion dada https://hcommons.org/groups/dada/forum/topic/dada-companion-gone/#post-27079 Mon, 18 Nov 2019 14:49:37 -0500 I hope to have some news about this fairly soon. Hopefully, good news.

]]> 0 11b85b4ab0537c6f1e1de4c962c298b2 John Levin started the topic Dada-companion gone in the discussion dada https://hcommons.org/groups/dada/forum/topic/dada-companion-gone/ Mon, 22 Jul 2019 19:59:46 -0400 The very useful website Dada Companion (http://www.dada-companion.com/) has gone awol; I’m currently getting a ‘server not found’ message.

It is available courtesy of the wayback machine: latest snapshot from January this year: https://web.archive.org/web/20190122105909/http://www.dada-companion.com/

Does anyone know what’s happened to the site…[Read more]

]]> 0 5cca4ea065bb9b1008a1094c1e04cf7c John Levin started the topic Grosz & Novembergruppe in Berlin in the discussion dada https://hcommons.org/groups/dada/forum/topic/grosz-novembergruppe-in-berlin/ Tue, 04 Dec 2018 15:04:01 -0500 As part of the centenary events around the German Revolution, there are two dada-relevent exhibitions currently on in Berlin:

Freedom The art of the Novembergruppe 1918–1935, at the Berlinische

https://www.berlinischegalerie.de/en/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/novembergruppe/

George Grosz in Berlin at the B…[Read more]

]]> 0 11b9f6b3c0a34b3d8f072a11878141af John Levin started the topic New issue of Dada/Surrealism: Dada, War and Peace in the discussion dada https://hcommons.org/groups/dada/forum/topic/new-issue-of-dada-surrealism-dada-war-and-peace/ Tue, 06 Nov 2018 12:28:03 -0500 New issue online of open access journal Dada/Surrealism, on Dada, War and Peace

https://ir.uiowa.edu/dadasur/

]]> 0 e06d6a9dc019944c003740483995efab John Levin started the topic Emmy Hennings in Spanish in the discussion dada https://hcommons.org/groups/dada/forum/topic/emmy-hennings-in-spanish/ Mon, 23 Jul 2018 22:20:40 -0400 Just published, a Spanish translation of works by Emmy Hennings, containing her autobiiographical novel Prison, her first poetry collection Ether Poems, and a selection of short pieces from various Expressionist and Dadaist magazines.

This follows a comic book of her life, El Ángel Dada, from the same publisher, El Paseo.

El Angel…[Read more]

]]> 0 da901982704f1068125a1fa563e649da John Levin started the topic CFP: Dada Studies as Countercultural Practice, New York, Feb 2019 in the discussion dada https://hcommons.org/groups/dada/forum/topic/cfp-dada-studies-as-countercultural-practice-new-york-feb-2019/ Fri, 06 Jul 2018 17:37:27 -0400 ​CALL FOR PAPERS:​

Dada Studies as Countercultural Practice: Intervening in the Art Historical Institution

Session for the College Art Association Conference

New York, New York / 13-16 February 2019

Session Chairs:

Brett M. Van Hoesen, University of Nevada-Reno

Kathryn M. Floyd, Auburn University

Abstract Deadline: August 6, 2018

What can…[Read more]

]]> 0 c0e9b2d9d71a4794a5eb3072ce1433c1 John Levin started the topic Russian Dada exhibition, Reina Sofia, Madrid. in the discussion dada https://hcommons.org/groups/dada/forum/topic/russian-dada-exhibition-reina-sofia-madrid/ Sat, 09 Jun 2018 14:42:54 -0400 Just Opened:
Russian Dada at the Reina Sofia, Madrid
http://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/exhibitions/russian-dada

]]> 0 3a8c91a728fb482d479e32f2ca9b7ce7 John Levin started the topic Query: British Army archives relating to Cologne Dada? in the discussion dada https://hcommons.org/groups/dada/forum/topic/query-british-army-archives-relating-to-cologne-dada/ Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:20:06 -0500 Post-World War One, the British occupied Cologne, where Ernst and fellow dadaists run afoul of their censorship. At the very least, the British banned both Baargeld’s 1919 magazine Der Ventilator, and the catalogue for the Bulletin D exhibition. However, I have not found any British military archives holding documents relating to either the…[Read more]

]]> 0 89177b0219fae13f8b0ab35efee13e95 John Levin started the topic Richard Hell on Picabia in the discussion dada https://hcommons.org/groups/dada/forum/topic/richard-hell-on-picabia/ Thu, 04 Jan 2018 15:25:35 -0500 Richard Hell of ‘Blank Generation’ fame review the recent Picabia exhibition at MOMA:

https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/12/31/picabia-nihilism-and-searching-for-meaning-in-art-in-2017/

 

]]> 0 82405d22d336dd6c6f1bdf0f4f8d6d75 John Levin started the topic Conference: Collage, Montage, Assemblage: Collected and Composite Forms in the discussion dada https://hcommons.org/groups/dada/forum/topic/conference-collage-montage-assemblage-collected-and-composite-forms/ Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:05:13 -0500 A conference of interest to dada-scholars is being held in Edinburgh, 18-19 April 2018, on Collage, Montage, Assemblage:

Deadline for papers is 1st December.

It’s sponsored by the Dada & Surrealism Research Group at the University of Edinburgh, who are on twitter at: https://twitter.com/DadaSurrealism

]]> 0 f9d7c4d92fdbe5a9d44b872164c39cdc John Levin started the topic Dada Africa in Paris in the discussion dada https://hcommons.org/groups/dada/forum/topic/dada-africa-in-paris/ Fri, 03 Nov 2017 14:33:45 -0400 The exhibition Dada Africa (which I saw in Zurich last year) has  opened at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, and runs until February 19th.

(I felt it was an interesting exhibition, but could have done with some more depth, and taken a more critical eye to the Dadaists practices in this regard.)

 

 

]]> 0 a6c81e5b18037c0057deac7feb9a0a4d John Levin started the topic Complete run of 391 online in the discussion dada https://hcommons.org/groups/dada/forum/topic/complete-run-of-391-online/ Tue, 26 Sep 2017 21:08:43 -0400 A complete set of Francis Picabia’s notorious magazine 391 is now online, assembled by Monoskop, at:

https://monoskop.org/391

]]> 0 ed3b0fb58be0b4a5c74b01a7e3100331 John Levin posted an update in the group dada: New article: Paris Dada and the Transfiguration of Boredom […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1580569/ Mon, 04 Sep 2017 22:03:37 -0400 New article: Paris Dada and the Transfiguration of Boredom by Joyce Suechun Cheng in Modernism/modernity Vol 24, No 3, September 2017:
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/668652
Sadly, behind a paywall.

]]> 0 0dd1a1371219fd556c781674f70f1f78 John Levin started the topic Dada, War and Peace: Call for submissions in the discussion dada https://hcommons.org/groups/dada/forum/topic/dada-war-and-peace-call-for-submissions/ Wed, 09 Aug 2017 15:13:22 -0400 CFP for submissions to Dada/Surrealism special issue on Dada, War and Peace.

The origin of the Dada movement is inextricably linked to the history of World War I and to the reaction of artists and writers to the unprecedented carnage of that war. The participants in the Cabaret Voltaire were almost all citizens of countries that were engaged in…[Read more]

]]> 0 38d6a8147129a832b570530cd025a5fc John Levin posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1576263/#acomment-1576410 Sat, 22 Jul 2017 11:42:44 -0400 Love Hannah Höch. The header pic is from a Sophie Taueber-Arp work, ‘Dada Compositon’:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sophie_Taeuber-Arp_Composition_Dada_1920.jpg

In reply to - Anne Donlon posted an update in the group dada I love the Hannah Höch profile pic! ]]> d5e5f33346401c563dcca58ba09e9df8 John Levin started the topic New issue of Dada/Sur in the discussion dada https://hcommons.org/groups/dada/forum/topic/new-issue-of-dadasur/ Sat, 22 Jul 2017 11:37:22 -0400 New issue of Dada/Surrealism, on Exhibiting <s>#</s><b>Dada</b> and <s>#</s><b>Surrealism</b>:

http://ir.uiowa.edu/dadasur/

]]> 0 9f207a83bb39bac2780e535e68669eb9 John Levin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575856/ Sat, 15 Jul 2017 14:09:53 -0400 0 10327d5131e0aff69e5699e8a3479bbd John Levin replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/collections-of-scw-materials-images/#post-6918 Sat, 15 Jul 2017 13:51:08 -0400 A couple of open data sets relating to Francoist represion:

Graves of victims of Francoism:

http://vidascontadas.org/ with data at: https://github.com/VidasContadas/datasets
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]]> 0 fc7daa0c1ccb709015e888c0d14d4c35 John Levin created the group dada https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575854/ Sat, 15 Jul 2017 13:28:05 -0400 0 28036a07df1fa6289253b4ba8a7fb53c John Levin replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/introductions/#post-6917 Sat, 15 Jul 2017 13:19:34 -0400 Although I’m doing a PhD at Sussex University on debtors’ sanctuaries in c18th London, I have a strong interest in Spain & Spanish history, which I’d like to develop more seriously.

Especially interested in digitial history, and using computational techniques on historical data.

]]> 0 e6b2c9ee375152d4df49a3cc6fc5d50b John Levin started the topic High Quality 17th and 18th century maps of London in the discussion Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/groups/open-source-historical-mapping/forum/topic/high-quality-17th-and-18th-century-maps-of-london/ Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:24:32 -0500 This is a list of high quality, freely downloadable, freely reuseable maps of seventeenth and eighteenth century London, suitable for georectification and for use in the map hackathon. I will be working on geo-rectifying these over Christmas, but doubt I will get all done.

An exact survey of … London after the Great Fire

From the New York…[Read more]

]]> 0 5279dcf0174a41ea6e679dad6eb6ccb4 John Levin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1554551/ Mon, 05 Dec 2016 16:57:04 -0500 0 918c47968baf22f171e95199049ab478 John Levin replied to the topic The use of QGIS in historical mapping in the discussion Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/groups/open-source-historical-mapping/forum/topic/the-use-of-qgis-in-historical-mapping/#post-692 Sun, 04 Dec 2016 10:46:47 -0500 See also the QGis tutorials at the Programming Historian:

http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/

 

]]> 0 c41f4c90db2256fff6e1a7c96c8cb5d5 John Levin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1553786/ Thu, 01 Dec 2016 10:56:41 -0500 0 0daa8128a10aab94d86cab8a725bba3d John Levin changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1553570/ Tue, 29 Nov 2016 21:35:05 -0500 0 2590c2847a2ab99d787aadd91591ce40 John Levin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1553560/ Tue, 29 Nov 2016 21:13:50 -0500 0 e84ddc5114935f9ec1bd4bd40d14da73 John Levin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1553540/ Tue, 29 Nov 2016 20:28:55 -0500 0